The Record, which serves Troy, New York, and its surrounding areas, confirmed yesterday that Iron Man 3 is currently scouting for locations in the area, and that Marvel Studios has taken an interest in Troy's EMPAC building.

EMPAC stands for Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, which was created by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and opened in October of 2008. Marvel Studios is interested in using the building as the secret lab for its next bad guy, which is rumored to be Mandarin.

Marvel Studios has not locked the location down as of yet, but are planning ahead to insure they can use the facility for Iron Man 3, which will be shot shortly after 2012's The Avengers, itself set with a May, 2013 release date.

Rensselaer spokesman Michael Mullaney stated, "These types of location scouting inquiries and negotiations about EMPAC take place all the time. At this point, there is absolutely nothing certain or definitive about Iron Man 3."

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Here are my thoughts on the subject.... the first Iron Man was great because it wasn't referencing and setting up Avengers every two seconds. It had some subtle hints, but it wasn't like "Okay, stop the story of Iron Man 2, we're talking about The Avengers movie now". On top of being Iron Man's first outing and RDJ doing what RDJ does.

Having said that though, I did enjoy Iron Man 2 more then it seems a lot of people did. Sam Rockwell was great, the action that was in it was great, and I liked where they took Stark and Pott's relationship. I was satisfied enough.

For Iron Man 3, since it'll be after the Avengers movie, it can get back to focusing just on Iron Man himself, and benefit from that.